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Oklahoma Book
Awards
A Celebration of Oklahoma
Books and Authors
Welcome
to the Ninth Annual
Oklahoma Book Awards
Ceremonv
A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors
March 14, 1998
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma City
1991 Oklahoma Book Awards
Welcome ..................................................................................................... Laurie Sundborg
President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Greetings .............................................................................................. Maurvene Williams
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
Master of Ceremonies ......................................................................... Daniel Blanchard
Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Ellison Award ......................................................................... Presented by David Clark
Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Ellison Award Acceptance Remarks ............................................. Melvin Tolson Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
University of Oklahoma
Design/Illustration Award ................................................. Presented by Kim Doner
Illustrator, 1996 Oklahoma Book Award Recipient
Non-Fiction Award .......................................................... Presented by Ann DeFrange
Book Editor, The Daily Oklahoman
Poetry Award .................................................................... Presented by James Tolbert
Full Circle Books
Children/Young Adult Award ......................................... Presented by Fran Morris
"Speaking for Children" Columnist, Oklahoma Gazette
Fiction Award ............................................................ Presented by Christopher Givan
Professor of Creative Studies
University of Central Oklahoma
Lifetime Achievement Award ..................................... The Honorable Laura Boyd
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Announcements .......................................................................................... Glenda Carlile
Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book
You are invited to the after-party
at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place,
immediately following tonight's ceremony.
Melvin B. Tolson
Recipient of the
1998 Ralph Ellison Award
Melvin Tolson was a poet, journalist, and dramatist. He was born February 6, in 1898. He
attended Fisk University and earned a B.A. with honors from Lincoln University in 1923. Tolson
earned an M.A. from Columbia University in 1940.
He lived in Guthrie and in nearby Langston, where he served as mayor from 1952 until
1958. He was professor of creative literature and director of the Dust Bowl Theater from 1947
until 1965, and was Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Tolson won first place in the American Negro Exposition National Poetry Contest in 1939
for "Dark Symphony" and was Poet Laureate of Liberia in 1947. He wrote a weekly column for
the Washington Trihune, and a compilation of these articles was published under the column's
title, Caviar and Cahhage. Other works include: Rendezvous with America, Lihretto for the
Repuhlic of Liheria, and A Gallery of Harlem Portraits.
Tolson died in Dallas August 29, 1966, and is buried in Guthrie. The 1998 Ralph Ellison
Award will be presented posthumously to Melvin Tolson and will be accepted by his son, Melvin
Tolson Jr.
The Ralph Ellison Award
The Ralph Ellison Award was created by the Center to posthumously honor individuals who
have made outstanding contributions to Oklahoma's literary heritage. The award is named after
the first recipient, Ralph Ellison, who was honored in 1995. In 1997, Angie Debo was recipient
of the Ellison Award.
1998 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Design/Illustration
Angels in the Dust Illustrated by Roger Essley
Roger Essley is an artist whose drawings are in the collections of many museums, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His research about Oklahoma includes an interview
with a woman who lived through the Dust Bowl. Mr. Essley lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Oklahoma City: A Better Lhing, A Better Life Design Director Camille Leonard;
Designer Rebecca Hockman Carlisle; Photography by Jack Hammett, Joe Ownbey, Fred Marvel,
and Erick Gfeller.
Local photographers have created an impressive visual portrait of the Oklahoma City area for
this book produced in partnership with the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
Tulsa: A Celebration Design by Howard 1. Doak II and Signature Graphics; Photographs by
Nancy Godsey and Rick Stiller.
As a project for A Novel Idea book store, Doak and Signature Graphics worked together to
design this book. Godsey is a teacher, an artist, and a photographer. Stiller is an award winning
commercial photographer with more than twenty years of experience.
Tulsa! Biography of the American City
and
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting
from the Philbrook Museum of Art
Both designed by Carol Haralson
Haralson has won the Oklahoma Book Award three times: in 1991 for Cleora's Kitchens; in
1993 for Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence; and in 1997 for Big Bluestem: A Journey
Into the Tall Grass. She lived in Tulsa for many years and now resides in Sedona, Arizona.
Non-Fiction
Life in the Ancient Near East by Daniel Snell
Snell is professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Ledgers and
Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts and coauthor of Economic Texts from Sumer,
both published by Yale University Press. In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near
East, Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years
ago to Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 B.C.E.
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin Edited by John
Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin's extraordinary life is traced from his boyhood adventures on a ranch in
Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth century Tulsa. Buck Franklin was an
observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that
transformed the Southwest. John Hope Franklin, son of Buck Franklin, is chairman of the
Advisory Board on the President's Initiative on Race, and has received more than one hundred
honorary degrees. He was the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 1996, and
also received the President's Medal of Freedom in 1995. The son of John Hope Franklin, John
Whittington Franklin, is a program officer in the Division of Folklife Programs and Cultural
Studies at the Smithsonian Institution.
On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions by Jim Barnes
Barnes vividly recalls the people, events, and places that influenced his boyhood and
adolescence spent in the Choctaw country of southeastern Oklahoma during the Depression and
World War II. Barnes has intertwined his narrative and poems to create a sophisticated personal
history and commentary. Barnes received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 1993.
Our Governors' Mansions by Cathy Keating with Mike Brake and Patti Rosenfeld
All of the governors' mansions currently in use in the United States are featured in this lavish
pictorial presentation. The Governors' Mansions project has been organized by Cathy Keating,
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, with the assistance of Mike Brake, chief writer for
Governor Frank Keating, and longtime fine art enthusiast Patti Rosenfeld. The three worked in
cooperation with the governors' offices in each of the states.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's
Writings of North America Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Born in Tulsa,
she graduated from high school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where she
met Gloria Bird. In 1995, Harjo won the Oklahoma Book Award for The Woman Who Fell [rom
the Sky. Gloria Bird is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe and lives in Washington State
where she is the contributing editor of Wicazo Sa Review. This anthology includes more than
eighty writers representing fifty nations, and known for their contributions to tribal
communities.
Some Things are not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers
by Martha Royce Blaine
The Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874-75.
Blaine reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled the family to persevere during
the reservation years. Blaine is a former archivist of the Oklahoma Historical Society and lives
in Oklahoma City.
Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian by William T. Hagan
Hagan is retired professor of History, University of Oklahoma. He has written numerous books
about Indian subjects. He weaves a captivating story of the interactions between Theodore
Roosevelt and six friends of the Indians (George Bird Grinnell, C. Hart Merriam, Herbert Welsh,
Hamlin Garland, Francis E Leupp, and Charles Lummis) who used different agendas to seek the
president's influence on behalf of the tribes.
Tulsa! Biography of the American City by Danney Goble
Written to commemorate Tulsa's centennial anniversary, this narrative is enriched with 267
historical photographs. The volume records the major events and personalities that shaped
Tulsa. Goble has worked as Director of American Studies at Rogers University, Tulsa campus,
since 1995. With Carl Albert, he received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1991 for Little Giant.
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting
from the Philbrook Museum of Art by Lydia Lloyd Wyckoff
Wyckoff, curator of Native American Art and director of the Native American Outreach program
at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, has studied the relationship between design and
world-view for twenty years. The 484 paintings in Visions and Voices, all from the collection of
the Philbrook Museum of Art, reflect many major influences on Indian art.
Poetry
Paris by Jim Barnes
Jim Barnes is writer-in-residence, editor of the Chariton Review, and professor of comparative
literature at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He was born in Summerfield,
Oklahoma, attended LeFlore High School, and graduated from Southeastern State University in
Durant. He received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 1993. This is Barnes' eighth
volume of poetry.
Red Signature by Mary Leader
Mary Leader makes her home in Norman, Oklahoma. She is currently the Creative Writing
Fellow for Poetry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she also lectures in law. Leader
practiced law for many years and served Oklahoma as Assistant State Attorney General, and
later as referee for the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Red Signature is her first book of poems.
Somebody Say Amen by Betty Shipley
Betty Shipley, an Oklahoma native, is a former high school teacher, university lecturer, and
poet-in-the schools. Shipley is Oklahoma's 1997-98 Poet Laureate, and poetry editor and
columnist for ByLine magazine. She is also editor and book designer for Broncho Press in
Edmond.
ChlldrenfYoung Adult Award
Aloha Summer by Bill Wallace
A popular writer for young readers, Wallace has received numerous awards for his books, including the
Texas Bluebonnet, the Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young
Readers Choice Award, and the William Allen White Award. Unlike the hero in Aloha Summer who
moves from Oklahoma to Hawaii, Wallace still lives in Chickasha where he was born.
Angels in the Dust by Margot Theis Raven
A writer and journalist who has worked in radio, television, magazines, and newspapers, this is Raven's
first book for children. This book fulfills a desire to write about the Dust Bowl through the eyes of the
courageous people who survived hard times. Raven recently moved from Ohio to Concord, Maine, with
her husband, four children, and two hermit crabs.
Dear Dr. Sillyhear by Dian Curtis Regan
Regan is the author of more than thirty books for young readers. She is also a popular speaker in
Oklahoma schools, where she often tells the children about her monster cat Poco. Originally from
Colorado, Regan has lived in Edmond for several years, and is moving to Venezuela soon.
Hero by S.L. Rottman
First-time author S.L. Rottman is an English teacher in the Deer Creek school system. A graduate of
Colorado State University, she wrote Hero at the age of twenty-four. In an age when few heroes exist,
Rottman writes about a confused fifteen-year-old boy who learns just what it means to be a hero.
The Keeping Room by Anna Myers
Myers has won the Oklahoma Book Award two times: in 1993 for Red Dirt Jessie and in 1996 for
Graveyard Girl. Myers has a deep understanding of rural life that she brings to her work. Her life in
Chandler, Oklahoma, as an eighth-grade teacher gives her a deep understanding of small-town life for
young people.
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Set in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, this novel explores both the ecology of the land and
the topography of the heart. Hesse received the Newbery Award for this book. She is the author of ten
books for children including The Music of Dolphins which was named a best book of 1996 by both
Publishers' Weekly and School Library Journal. She lives in Vermont.
Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America Edited by Jill Max
Jill Max is a pseudonym for the writing team of Ronia K. Davidson and Kelly Bennett. They live in Tulsa,
where they have done extensive research about Native American customs and lore at the Gilcrease
Museum. Spider Spins a Story explores the recurrence of the spider as a unifying thread in the
literature of diverse Native American cultures.
Fiction
Death in Lovers' Lane by Carolyn Hart
An acknowledged master of mystery and spine-tingling suspense, Hart has won multiple Agatha,
Anthony, and Macavity awards for her popular "Death on Demand" series. This is the third in
her Henrie O. Mysteries. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.
The Geometry of Love by Joan Fay Cuccio
This is the first novel for Cuccio, a writer and newspaper copy editor. In sensuous and sensitive
prose, Cuccio examines the nature of experience within the context of one woman's story. She is
a student of Tae Kwon Do and has worked as a volunteer for a battered women's shelter. She
lives with her husband and two dogs in Norman.
The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew
Askew is the author of Strange Business, which received the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award. Her
short fiction has been selected for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Award. She divides her time
between the Sans Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and upstate New York.
Naked Justice by William Bernhardt
Bernhardt has won many awards in both of his chosen professions; as an attorney and as a
writer. In 1993 he was named one of the top twenty-five young lawyers in the nation. Bernhardt
has been a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Award competition five times and won the award in
1995 for Perfect Justice. He and his wife, Kirsten, and their two children live in Tulsa.
Ride the Lightning by Robert H. Mitchell
Inspired by the 1973 riot at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Ride the Ligntning
spins a web of political and legal intrigue. Mitchell is an Oklahoma City attorney specializing in
trial law. He has served as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Oklahoma and as chairman
of the state's pardon and parole board. This is his first novel.
The Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan
O'Nan's award winning fiction includes the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award for The Names of the
Dead. In 1996, he was named one of Cranta's Best Young American novelists. This novel, set in
Edmond, was begun when O'Nan taught creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.
He now lives in Avon, Connecticut.
War Woman: A Novel of the Real People by Robert Conley
Conley was a 1995 Oklahoma Book Award finalist for Long Way Home. A two-time winner of the
prestigious Spur Award, Conley is one of the most respected Native American writers at work
today. He is a teacher and poet, as well as a novelist. He lives in Tahlequah.
Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Pulitizer Prize winning author McMurtry and writing partner Os sana collaborated on this novel
set in Indian Territory, east of the Arkansas River. McMurtry is the author of twenty novels, two
collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Texas. Diana Ossana has co­authored
novels, screenplays, and co-produced television mini-series with McMurtry. She lives in
Arizona.
Jack Bickham
Recipient of the
1998 Arrell Gihson Lifetime Achievement Award
Writers all across the United States proclaim their success is due in part to Jack Bickham,
noted novelist, teacher, and journalist.
The nationally known Norman author wrote 75 published novels and six instructional books
about writing fiction. Two of his novels, The Apple Dumpling Gang and Baker's Hawk, were
released as motion pictures. Two of Bickham's books have been reprinted by Reader's Digest
Condensed Books and, two were selected as Detective Book selections. His 1976 novel Twister
was named a book of the decade by the West Coast Review of Books, and I Still Dream About
Columbus won the Florence Roberts Head Memorial Award given by the Ohio Library
Association.
Bickham's IS-year newspaper career included work on the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma
City Times, and the Oklahoma Courier. He was assistant professor at the University of
Oklahoma's H.H. Herbert School of Journalism from 1969 to 1972, associate professor from
1972 to 1979, and attained the rank of professor in 1979. He directed the annual short course
on professional writing from 1973 to 1990. He held the rank of David Ross Boyd Professor, the
highest honor the University bestows for teaching excellence.
Bickham conducted several writing and journalism workshops across the country. His
writing students have published more than 100 short stories, hundreds of articles, and at least
60 books. He was a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma
Writers Hall of Fame.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book regrets that Jack Bickham's death July 25, 1997,
prevents his personally receiving the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award tonight.
However, Bickham had been notified of his selection and had expressed his pleasure and
anticipation of receiving the honor.
Bickham's good friend, Mack Palmer, said "What I would say about Bickham with greatest
admiration is that whether talking or writing, his words never failed him. I don't like the silence
of his absence."
The Arrell Gibson lifetime Achievement Award
The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year as recognition
for a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first
president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
Previous Oldahoma Book Award Winners
Fiction
1990, Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister
1991, Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit
1992, Robert 1. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark
1993, Rilla Askew, Strange Business
1994, Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist
1995, William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice
1996, Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
1997, Stewart O'Nan, The Names of the Dead
Non-Fiction
1990, Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick
1991, Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant
1992, David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys,
Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State
1993, Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon;
and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators
1994,1. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever
1995, Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
1996, William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm
1997, Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the TaJJ Grass
Childrenl Young Adult
1990, Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and His Kin
1991, Stan Hoig, A Capitol for the Nation
1992, Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy
1993, Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie
1994, Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer
1995, Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code
1996, Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl
1997, Barbara Stone Gilbert, Stone Water
Poetry
1990, William Kistler, The Elizaheth Sequence
1992, Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust
1993, Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War
1994, Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation
1995, Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1996, Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson, The Trouhle with Voices
1997, Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli's The Blazing Lights of the Sun
DesignJ Illustration
1990, David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson
1991, Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens
1992, Joe Williams, Woolaroc
1993, Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence;
and Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas
1994, Deloss McGraw, Fish Story
1995, Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love
1996, Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony
1997, Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
1990, Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, native of Tulsa
1991, Tony Hillerman, mystery writer, native of Sacred Heart
1992, Savoie Lottinville, Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years
1993, Harold Keith, Newbery Award winning children's author, Norman
1994, N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author, native of Lawton
1995, R.A. Lafferty, Hugo Award winning author, Tulsa.
1996, John Hope Franklin, historian, native of Rentiesville
1997, S.E. Hinton, award winning author of young adult novels, Tulsa
Ralph Ellison Award
1995, Ralph Ellison, National Book Award winner, Oklahoma City
1997, Angie Debo, "First Lady of Oklahoma History," Marshall
Oklahoma Center lor the Book
Ofticers and Board of Directors
Laurie Sundborg is president. She is Adult Resources Coordinator with the Tulsa City­County
Library System.
Diane Canavan is vice-president. She is a Title I Reading Specialist with the Shawnee
Public Schools.
Marilyn Vesely is secretary. She is retired from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries
and lives in Norman.
Gerry Willingham is treasurer. She is retired from the Putnam City School District
where she served as director of the Library Media program.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501-c-3 organization serving as an
outreach program of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Oklahoma's Center,
begun in 1986, was the fourth state center formed. The mission of the Oklahoma Center
for the Book is to promote the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; to
promote the literary heritage of the state; and to encourage reading for pleasure by
Oklahomans of all ages.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book is governed by a volunteer board of directors from
across the state. They are listed below, except for officers named above.
Hannah Atkins, Oklahoma City
William Bernhardt, Tulsa
Gale Bollinger, Oklahoma City
Glenda Carlile, Oklahoma City
David Clark, Norman
Robert L. Clark Jr., Oklahoma City
Liz Codding, Edmond
Aarone Corwin, Midwest City
Nance Diamond, Shawnee
Kim Doner, Tulsa
Lennie Draper, Norman
Julia Fresonke, Edmond
Marilyn Geiger, Norman
Ann Hamilton, Edmond
Julie Hovis, Edmond
Ken Jackson, Tulsa
Howard Meredith, Oklahoma City
Teresa Miller, Tulsa
Paulette Millichap, Tulsa
Joyce Pipps, Shawnee
Eve K. Sandstrom, Lawton
Dean Sims, Tulsa
RJ. Williams, Oklahoma City
John Wooley, Tulsa
William R. Young, Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA
tCENTER FOR THE BOOK
Project Highlights, 1991-98
During the past year, the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department
of Libraries has participated in several events and has made commitments for events
later this year.
The Center has been involved with the National Young Readers' Day program every year
since the program first began in 1989. For 1998, the Center will once again sponsor the "Kids
Caught Reading" activity, giving $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are caught
reading in their spare time.
The Center, for the fourth year, is co-sponsoring the "Letters about Literature" competition.
Nationally promoted by Weekly Reader, students in grades 6 through 12 are asked to write
letters to the author of a book that affected them in some way. The Center awards a total of
$250 to writers of the top five letters.
Color Us Literate was a program conducted in 1997 by the Oklahoma County Literacy
Coalition and local literacy groups. The Center assisted with an exhibit and book signing by
Oklahoma authors at Oklahoma City's Crossroads Mall in June.
Authors in Libraries has been a very successful program which has brought Oklahoma
Book Award finalists into the public libraries for special presentations. The Center pays an
honoraria to the authors, and the libraries match the funds through in-kind contributions such
as refreshments, postage, invitations, and press coverage.
In recent years, the Center has been able to make monetary contributions to support other
literary events in the state. In 1997, funds were granted to the Oklahoma Center for Poets and
Writers, the "I'd Sooner Read campaign," National Young Readers' Day, and the "Color Us
Literate" promotion.
The Center's website address is www.state.ok.usf-odlfocb
The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank
the judges for the 1997 competition. They were:
David Biespiel
Dan Blanchard
Kay Boies
Tom Buckley
David Clark
Evelyn K. Davis
Bettie Estes-Rickner
Karyn Lynn Gilman
Christopher Givan
Ann Hamilton
Rosemary Hardy
James Herring
Kathryn Fanning
Mary McAnally
Bill McCloud
Howard Meredith
Donna Norvell
B. Byron Price
Jean Richardson
DeWayne Smoot
Leah Taylor
James R. Tolbert III
Mary Woodman
William It Young
Jennifer Younge
The Center acknowledges the generous contributions
of the following organizations and individuals:
Best of Books, Edmond
Dunlap and Codding Patent Law Firm
Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Office of Public Information
Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association
Steve's Books, Tulsa
Very special thanks to . ..
Marilyn Geiger and Kim Doner, co-chairs of the ceremony committee
Proceeds from tonight's book sales will benefit
the Oklahoma Center for the Book
OKLAHOMA t CENTER FOR THE BOOK
200 Northeast 18th Street
Oklahoma City. OK 7310;,.3298
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Oklahoma Book
Awards
A Celebration of Oklahoma
Books and Authors
Welcome
to the Ninth Annual
Oklahoma Book Awards
Ceremonv
A Celebration of Oklahoma Books and Authors
March 14, 1998
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma City
1991 Oklahoma Book Awards
Welcome ..................................................................................................... Laurie Sundborg
President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Greetings .............................................................................................. Maurvene Williams
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
Master of Ceremonies ......................................................................... Daniel Blanchard
Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Ellison Award ......................................................................... Presented by David Clark
Past President, Oklahoma Center for the Book
Ellison Award Acceptance Remarks ............................................. Melvin Tolson Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages
University of Oklahoma
Design/Illustration Award ................................................. Presented by Kim Doner
Illustrator, 1996 Oklahoma Book Award Recipient
Non-Fiction Award .......................................................... Presented by Ann DeFrange
Book Editor, The Daily Oklahoman
Poetry Award .................................................................... Presented by James Tolbert
Full Circle Books
Children/Young Adult Award ......................................... Presented by Fran Morris
"Speaking for Children" Columnist, Oklahoma Gazette
Fiction Award ............................................................ Presented by Christopher Givan
Professor of Creative Studies
University of Central Oklahoma
Lifetime Achievement Award ..................................... The Honorable Laura Boyd
Oklahoma House of Representatives
Announcements .......................................................................................... Glenda Carlile
Executive Director, Oklahoma Center for the Book
You are invited to the after-party
at Full Circle Books, 50 Penn Place,
immediately following tonight's ceremony.
Melvin B. Tolson
Recipient of the
1998 Ralph Ellison Award
Melvin Tolson was a poet, journalist, and dramatist. He was born February 6, in 1898. He
attended Fisk University and earned a B.A. with honors from Lincoln University in 1923. Tolson
earned an M.A. from Columbia University in 1940.
He lived in Guthrie and in nearby Langston, where he served as mayor from 1952 until
1958. He was professor of creative literature and director of the Dust Bowl Theater from 1947
until 1965, and was Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Tolson won first place in the American Negro Exposition National Poetry Contest in 1939
for "Dark Symphony" and was Poet Laureate of Liberia in 1947. He wrote a weekly column for
the Washington Trihune, and a compilation of these articles was published under the column's
title, Caviar and Cahhage. Other works include: Rendezvous with America, Lihretto for the
Repuhlic of Liheria, and A Gallery of Harlem Portraits.
Tolson died in Dallas August 29, 1966, and is buried in Guthrie. The 1998 Ralph Ellison
Award will be presented posthumously to Melvin Tolson and will be accepted by his son, Melvin
Tolson Jr.
The Ralph Ellison Award
The Ralph Ellison Award was created by the Center to posthumously honor individuals who
have made outstanding contributions to Oklahoma's literary heritage. The award is named after
the first recipient, Ralph Ellison, who was honored in 1995. In 1997, Angie Debo was recipient
of the Ellison Award.
1998 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Design/Illustration
Angels in the Dust Illustrated by Roger Essley
Roger Essley is an artist whose drawings are in the collections of many museums, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His research about Oklahoma includes an interview
with a woman who lived through the Dust Bowl. Mr. Essley lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Oklahoma City: A Better Lhing, A Better Life Design Director Camille Leonard;
Designer Rebecca Hockman Carlisle; Photography by Jack Hammett, Joe Ownbey, Fred Marvel,
and Erick Gfeller.
Local photographers have created an impressive visual portrait of the Oklahoma City area for
this book produced in partnership with the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
Tulsa: A Celebration Design by Howard 1. Doak II and Signature Graphics; Photographs by
Nancy Godsey and Rick Stiller.
As a project for A Novel Idea book store, Doak and Signature Graphics worked together to
design this book. Godsey is a teacher, an artist, and a photographer. Stiller is an award winning
commercial photographer with more than twenty years of experience.
Tulsa! Biography of the American City
and
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting
from the Philbrook Museum of Art
Both designed by Carol Haralson
Haralson has won the Oklahoma Book Award three times: in 1991 for Cleora's Kitchens; in
1993 for Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence; and in 1997 for Big Bluestem: A Journey
Into the Tall Grass. She lived in Tulsa for many years and now resides in Sedona, Arizona.
Non-Fiction
Life in the Ancient Near East by Daniel Snell
Snell is professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Ledgers and
Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts and coauthor of Economic Texts from Sumer,
both published by Yale University Press. In this sweeping overview of life in the ancient Near
East, Snell surveys the history of the region from the invention of writing five thousand years
ago to Alexander the Great's conquest in 332 B.C.E.
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin Edited by John
Hope Franklin and John Whittington Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin's extraordinary life is traced from his boyhood adventures on a ranch in
Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth century Tulsa. Buck Franklin was an
observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that
transformed the Southwest. John Hope Franklin, son of Buck Franklin, is chairman of the
Advisory Board on the President's Initiative on Race, and has received more than one hundred
honorary degrees. He was the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 1996, and
also received the President's Medal of Freedom in 1995. The son of John Hope Franklin, John
Whittington Franklin, is a program officer in the Division of Folklife Programs and Cultural
Studies at the Smithsonian Institution.
On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions by Jim Barnes
Barnes vividly recalls the people, events, and places that influenced his boyhood and
adolescence spent in the Choctaw country of southeastern Oklahoma during the Depression and
World War II. Barnes has intertwined his narrative and poems to create a sophisticated personal
history and commentary. Barnes received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 1993.
Our Governors' Mansions by Cathy Keating with Mike Brake and Patti Rosenfeld
All of the governors' mansions currently in use in the United States are featured in this lavish
pictorial presentation. The Governors' Mansions project has been organized by Cathy Keating,
First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, with the assistance of Mike Brake, chief writer for
Governor Frank Keating, and longtime fine art enthusiast Patti Rosenfeld. The three worked in
cooperation with the governors' offices in each of the states.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's
Writings of North America Edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird
Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Born in Tulsa,
she graduated from high school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where she
met Gloria Bird. In 1995, Harjo won the Oklahoma Book Award for The Woman Who Fell [rom
the Sky. Gloria Bird is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe and lives in Washington State
where she is the contributing editor of Wicazo Sa Review. This anthology includes more than
eighty writers representing fifty nations, and known for their contributions to tribal
communities.
Some Things are not Forgotten: A Pawnee Family Remembers
by Martha Royce Blaine
The Blaine family was among the Pawnees forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1874-75.
Blaine reveals the strengths of character and culture that enabled the family to persevere during
the reservation years. Blaine is a former archivist of the Oklahoma Historical Society and lives
in Oklahoma City.
Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian by William T. Hagan
Hagan is retired professor of History, University of Oklahoma. He has written numerous books
about Indian subjects. He weaves a captivating story of the interactions between Theodore
Roosevelt and six friends of the Indians (George Bird Grinnell, C. Hart Merriam, Herbert Welsh,
Hamlin Garland, Francis E Leupp, and Charles Lummis) who used different agendas to seek the
president's influence on behalf of the tribes.
Tulsa! Biography of the American City by Danney Goble
Written to commemorate Tulsa's centennial anniversary, this narrative is enriched with 267
historical photographs. The volume records the major events and personalities that shaped
Tulsa. Goble has worked as Director of American Studies at Rogers University, Tulsa campus,
since 1995. With Carl Albert, he received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1991 for Little Giant.
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting
from the Philbrook Museum of Art by Lydia Lloyd Wyckoff
Wyckoff, curator of Native American Art and director of the Native American Outreach program
at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, has studied the relationship between design and
world-view for twenty years. The 484 paintings in Visions and Voices, all from the collection of
the Philbrook Museum of Art, reflect many major influences on Indian art.
Poetry
Paris by Jim Barnes
Jim Barnes is writer-in-residence, editor of the Chariton Review, and professor of comparative
literature at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. He was born in Summerfield,
Oklahoma, attended LeFlore High School, and graduated from Southeastern State University in
Durant. He received the Oklahoma Book Award for poetry in 1993. This is Barnes' eighth
volume of poetry.
Red Signature by Mary Leader
Mary Leader makes her home in Norman, Oklahoma. She is currently the Creative Writing
Fellow for Poetry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she also lectures in law. Leader
practiced law for many years and served Oklahoma as Assistant State Attorney General, and
later as referee for the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Red Signature is her first book of poems.
Somebody Say Amen by Betty Shipley
Betty Shipley, an Oklahoma native, is a former high school teacher, university lecturer, and
poet-in-the schools. Shipley is Oklahoma's 1997-98 Poet Laureate, and poetry editor and
columnist for ByLine magazine. She is also editor and book designer for Broncho Press in
Edmond.
ChlldrenfYoung Adult Award
Aloha Summer by Bill Wallace
A popular writer for young readers, Wallace has received numerous awards for his books, including the
Texas Bluebonnet, the Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, the Pacific Northwest Library Association Young
Readers Choice Award, and the William Allen White Award. Unlike the hero in Aloha Summer who
moves from Oklahoma to Hawaii, Wallace still lives in Chickasha where he was born.
Angels in the Dust by Margot Theis Raven
A writer and journalist who has worked in radio, television, magazines, and newspapers, this is Raven's
first book for children. This book fulfills a desire to write about the Dust Bowl through the eyes of the
courageous people who survived hard times. Raven recently moved from Ohio to Concord, Maine, with
her husband, four children, and two hermit crabs.
Dear Dr. Sillyhear by Dian Curtis Regan
Regan is the author of more than thirty books for young readers. She is also a popular speaker in
Oklahoma schools, where she often tells the children about her monster cat Poco. Originally from
Colorado, Regan has lived in Edmond for several years, and is moving to Venezuela soon.
Hero by S.L. Rottman
First-time author S.L. Rottman is an English teacher in the Deer Creek school system. A graduate of
Colorado State University, she wrote Hero at the age of twenty-four. In an age when few heroes exist,
Rottman writes about a confused fifteen-year-old boy who learns just what it means to be a hero.
The Keeping Room by Anna Myers
Myers has won the Oklahoma Book Award two times: in 1993 for Red Dirt Jessie and in 1996 for
Graveyard Girl. Myers has a deep understanding of rural life that she brings to her work. Her life in
Chandler, Oklahoma, as an eighth-grade teacher gives her a deep understanding of small-town life for
young people.
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Set in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression, this novel explores both the ecology of the land and
the topography of the heart. Hesse received the Newbery Award for this book. She is the author of ten
books for children including The Music of Dolphins which was named a best book of 1996 by both
Publishers' Weekly and School Library Journal. She lives in Vermont.
Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America Edited by Jill Max
Jill Max is a pseudonym for the writing team of Ronia K. Davidson and Kelly Bennett. They live in Tulsa,
where they have done extensive research about Native American customs and lore at the Gilcrease
Museum. Spider Spins a Story explores the recurrence of the spider as a unifying thread in the
literature of diverse Native American cultures.
Fiction
Death in Lovers' Lane by Carolyn Hart
An acknowledged master of mystery and spine-tingling suspense, Hart has won multiple Agatha,
Anthony, and Macavity awards for her popular "Death on Demand" series. This is the third in
her Henrie O. Mysteries. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.
The Geometry of Love by Joan Fay Cuccio
This is the first novel for Cuccio, a writer and newspaper copy editor. In sensuous and sensitive
prose, Cuccio examines the nature of experience within the context of one woman's story. She is
a student of Tae Kwon Do and has worked as a volunteer for a battered women's shelter. She
lives with her husband and two dogs in Norman.
The Mercy Seat by Rilla Askew
Askew is the author of Strange Business, which received the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award. Her
short fiction has been selected for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Award. She divides her time
between the Sans Bois Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma and upstate New York.
Naked Justice by William Bernhardt
Bernhardt has won many awards in both of his chosen professions; as an attorney and as a
writer. In 1993 he was named one of the top twenty-five young lawyers in the nation. Bernhardt
has been a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Award competition five times and won the award in
1995 for Perfect Justice. He and his wife, Kirsten, and their two children live in Tulsa.
Ride the Lightning by Robert H. Mitchell
Inspired by the 1973 riot at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Ride the Ligntning
spins a web of political and legal intrigue. Mitchell is an Oklahoma City attorney specializing in
trial law. He has served as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Oklahoma and as chairman
of the state's pardon and parole board. This is his first novel.
The Speed Queen by Stewart O'Nan
O'Nan's award winning fiction includes the 1997 Oklahoma Book Award for The Names of the
Dead. In 1996, he was named one of Cranta's Best Young American novelists. This novel, set in
Edmond, was begun when O'Nan taught creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.
He now lives in Avon, Connecticut.
War Woman: A Novel of the Real People by Robert Conley
Conley was a 1995 Oklahoma Book Award finalist for Long Way Home. A two-time winner of the
prestigious Spur Award, Conley is one of the most respected Native American writers at work
today. He is a teacher and poet, as well as a novelist. He lives in Tahlequah.
Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
Pulitizer Prize winning author McMurtry and writing partner Os sana collaborated on this novel
set in Indian Territory, east of the Arkansas River. McMurtry is the author of twenty novels, two
collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Texas. Diana Ossana has co­authored
novels, screenplays, and co-produced television mini-series with McMurtry. She lives in
Arizona.
Jack Bickham
Recipient of the
1998 Arrell Gihson Lifetime Achievement Award
Writers all across the United States proclaim their success is due in part to Jack Bickham,
noted novelist, teacher, and journalist.
The nationally known Norman author wrote 75 published novels and six instructional books
about writing fiction. Two of his novels, The Apple Dumpling Gang and Baker's Hawk, were
released as motion pictures. Two of Bickham's books have been reprinted by Reader's Digest
Condensed Books and, two were selected as Detective Book selections. His 1976 novel Twister
was named a book of the decade by the West Coast Review of Books, and I Still Dream About
Columbus won the Florence Roberts Head Memorial Award given by the Ohio Library
Association.
Bickham's IS-year newspaper career included work on the Norman Transcript, Oklahoma
City Times, and the Oklahoma Courier. He was assistant professor at the University of
Oklahoma's H.H. Herbert School of Journalism from 1969 to 1972, associate professor from
1972 to 1979, and attained the rank of professor in 1979. He directed the annual short course
on professional writing from 1973 to 1990. He held the rank of David Ross Boyd Professor, the
highest honor the University bestows for teaching excellence.
Bickham conducted several writing and journalism workshops across the country. His
writing students have published more than 100 short stories, hundreds of articles, and at least
60 books. He was a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma
Writers Hall of Fame.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book regrets that Jack Bickham's death July 25, 1997,
prevents his personally receiving the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award tonight.
However, Bickham had been notified of his selection and had expressed his pleasure and
anticipation of receiving the honor.
Bickham's good friend, Mack Palmer, said "What I would say about Bickham with greatest
admiration is that whether talking or writing, his words never failed him. I don't like the silence
of his absence."
The Arrell Gibson lifetime Achievement Award
The Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented each year as recognition
for a body of work. This award was named for the Norman historian who served as the first
president of the Oklahoma Center for the Book.
Previous Oldahoma Book Award Winners
Fiction
1990, Robert Love Taylor, The Lost Sister
1991, Linda Hogan, Mean Spirit
1992, Robert 1. Duncan, The Serpent's Mark
1993, Rilla Askew, Strange Business
1994, Eve Sandstrom, Down Home Heifer Heist
1995, William Bernhardt, Perfect Justice
1996, Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is
1997, Stewart O'Nan, The Names of the Dead
Non-Fiction
1990, Leonard Leff, Hitchcock & Selznick
1991, Carl Albert and Danney Goble, Little Giant
1992, David Morgan, Robert England, and George Humphreys,
Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State
1993, Henry Bellmon and Pat Bellmon, The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon;
and Daniel Boorstin, The Creators
1994,1. Brent Clark, 3rd Down and Forever
1995, Dennis McAuliffe Jr., The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
1996, William Paul Winchester, A Very Small Farm
1997, Annick Smith, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the TaJJ Grass
Childrenl Young Adult
1990, Helen Roney Sattler, Tyrannosaurus Rex and His Kin
1991, Stan Hoig, A Capitol for the Nation
1992, Jess and Bonnie Speer, Hillback to Boggy
1993, Anna Myers, Red Dirt Jessie
1994, Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, Cherokee Summer
1995, Russell G. Davis and Brent Ashabranner, The Choctaw Code
1996, Anna Myers, Graveyard Girl
1997, Barbara Stone Gilbert, Stone Water
Poetry
1990, William Kistler, The Elizaheth Sequence
1992, Carol Hamilton, Once the Dust
1993, Jim Barnes, The Sawdust War
1994, Carter Revard, An Eagle Nation
1995, Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1996, Francine Leffler Ringold-Johnson, The Trouhle with Voices
1997, Renata Treitel, translation of Rosita Copioli's The Blazing Lights of the Sun
DesignJ Illustration
1990, David E. Hunt, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson
1991, Carol Haralson, Cleora's Kitchens
1992, Joe Williams, Woolaroc
1993, Carol Haralson, Will Rogers: Courtship and Correspondence;
and Kandy Radzinski, The Twelve Cats of Christmas
1994, Deloss McGraw, Fish Story
1995, Mike Wimmer, All the Places to Love
1996, Kim Doner, Green Snake Ceremony
1997, Carol Haralson and Harvey Payne, Big Bluestem: A Journey into the Tall Grass
Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award
1990, Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, native of Tulsa
1991, Tony Hillerman, mystery writer, native of Sacred Heart
1992, Savoie Lottinville, Director of the University of Oklahoma Press for 30 years
1993, Harold Keith, Newbery Award winning children's author, Norman
1994, N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa author, native of Lawton
1995, R.A. Lafferty, Hugo Award winning author, Tulsa.
1996, John Hope Franklin, historian, native of Rentiesville
1997, S.E. Hinton, award winning author of young adult novels, Tulsa
Ralph Ellison Award
1995, Ralph Ellison, National Book Award winner, Oklahoma City
1997, Angie Debo, "First Lady of Oklahoma History," Marshall
Oklahoma Center lor the Book
Ofticers and Board of Directors
Laurie Sundborg is president. She is Adult Resources Coordinator with the Tulsa City­County
Library System.
Diane Canavan is vice-president. She is a Title I Reading Specialist with the Shawnee
Public Schools.
Marilyn Vesely is secretary. She is retired from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries
and lives in Norman.
Gerry Willingham is treasurer. She is retired from the Putnam City School District
where she served as director of the Library Media program.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book is a non-profit, 501-c-3 organization serving as an
outreach program of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Oklahoma's Center,
begun in 1986, was the fourth state center formed. The mission of the Oklahoma Center
for the Book is to promote the past, current, and future works of Oklahoma authors; to
promote the literary heritage of the state; and to encourage reading for pleasure by
Oklahomans of all ages.
The Oklahoma Center for the Book is governed by a volunteer board of directors from
across the state. They are listed below, except for officers named above.
Hannah Atkins, Oklahoma City
William Bernhardt, Tulsa
Gale Bollinger, Oklahoma City
Glenda Carlile, Oklahoma City
David Clark, Norman
Robert L. Clark Jr., Oklahoma City
Liz Codding, Edmond
Aarone Corwin, Midwest City
Nance Diamond, Shawnee
Kim Doner, Tulsa
Lennie Draper, Norman
Julia Fresonke, Edmond
Marilyn Geiger, Norman
Ann Hamilton, Edmond
Julie Hovis, Edmond
Ken Jackson, Tulsa
Howard Meredith, Oklahoma City
Teresa Miller, Tulsa
Paulette Millichap, Tulsa
Joyce Pipps, Shawnee
Eve K. Sandstrom, Lawton
Dean Sims, Tulsa
RJ. Williams, Oklahoma City
John Wooley, Tulsa
William R. Young, Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA
tCENTER FOR THE BOOK
Project Highlights, 1991-98
During the past year, the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the Oklahoma Department
of Libraries has participated in several events and has made commitments for events
later this year.
The Center has been involved with the National Young Readers' Day program every year
since the program first began in 1989. For 1998, the Center will once again sponsor the "Kids
Caught Reading" activity, giving $25 prizes to ten students from across the state who are caught
reading in their spare time.
The Center, for the fourth year, is co-sponsoring the "Letters about Literature" competition.
Nationally promoted by Weekly Reader, students in grades 6 through 12 are asked to write
letters to the author of a book that affected them in some way. The Center awards a total of
$250 to writers of the top five letters.
Color Us Literate was a program conducted in 1997 by the Oklahoma County Literacy
Coalition and local literacy groups. The Center assisted with an exhibit and book signing by
Oklahoma authors at Oklahoma City's Crossroads Mall in June.
Authors in Libraries has been a very successful program which has brought Oklahoma
Book Award finalists into the public libraries for special presentations. The Center pays an
honoraria to the authors, and the libraries match the funds through in-kind contributions such
as refreshments, postage, invitations, and press coverage.
In recent years, the Center has been able to make monetary contributions to support other
literary events in the state. In 1997, funds were granted to the Oklahoma Center for Poets and
Writers, the "I'd Sooner Read campaign," National Young Readers' Day, and the "Color Us
Literate" promotion.
The Center's website address is www.state.ok.usf-odlfocb
The Oklahoma Center for the Book wishes to thank
the judges for the 1997 competition. They were:
David Biespiel
Dan Blanchard
Kay Boies
Tom Buckley
David Clark
Evelyn K. Davis
Bettie Estes-Rickner
Karyn Lynn Gilman
Christopher Givan
Ann Hamilton
Rosemary Hardy
James Herring
Kathryn Fanning
Mary McAnally
Bill McCloud
Howard Meredith
Donna Norvell
B. Byron Price
Jean Richardson
DeWayne Smoot
Leah Taylor
James R. Tolbert III
Mary Woodman
William It Young
Jennifer Younge
The Center acknowledges the generous contributions
of the following organizations and individuals:
Best of Books, Edmond
Dunlap and Codding Patent Law Firm
Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Office of Public Information
Oklahoma Independent Booksellers Association
Steve's Books, Tulsa
Very special thanks to . ..
Marilyn Geiger and Kim Doner, co-chairs of the ceremony committee
Proceeds from tonight's book sales will benefit
the Oklahoma Center for the Book
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